DGP Has Asked Investigating Agencies To Be 'Careful' While Issuing Letters To Banks For Freezing Accounts: State To Rajasthan High Court

While hearing arguments on seizure of bank accounts on a letter from the Police, the Rajasthan Government informed the High Court that guidelines have been framed by DGP directed senior officials to instruct Investigating Agencies to remain careful while issuing letters to banks for freezing bank accounts. The court was hearing a matter on the question 'Whether the bank account of account...

Retired Class-IV Employee Not Expected To Understand Terms Like 'Acquiescence' Or 'Delay': HP High Court Quashes Pension Rejection Order

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has quashed the pension rejection order of a daily wage beldar worker, holding that pension cannot be denied on the ground that of delay in filing claim as a class IV cannot be expected to understand technical legal concepts like acquiescence or laches, and pension is a recurring right that cannot be defeated by delay.Rejecting the State's contention,...

Wife Can Be Denied Maintenance Upon Failure To Produce Latest Salary Slips: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that Courts can draw adverse inference of a wife's failure to produce her latest salary slips, in order to show insufficiency of income or financial hardship, to claim maintenance from husband.Justice Dr. Swarana Kanta Sharma observed,“As the primary ingredient for grant of maintenance to a wife under Section 125 Cr.P.C. – i.e. her inability to maintain...

'Able-Bodied Husband Presumed To Be Capable Of Earning Enough Money To Maintain Wife': Rajasthan High Court

While hearing a petition for enhancement of maintenance, Rajasthan High Court took into account the earning capacity of the respondent-husband, and observed that an able-bodied husband was presumed to be capable of earning sufficient money to maintain his wife, and could not take the stand that he was not in a position to earn sufficiently to maintain his family.The petitioner was...

Gujarat High Court Asks Litigant Challenging 'Jolly LLB 3' Movie Teaser To Peruse Allahabad HC Order Dismissing Similar Plea

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday (September 11) asked a litigant challenging the teaser of the upcoming movie 'Jolly LLB 3' to go through the order of the Allahabad High Court–which dismissed a plea for restraining the release of the movie, and thereafter take a call with respect to his plea. The film starring actors Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi is scheduled for release on...

Delhi High Court Declines Interim Injunction To 'WOW MOMO' In Trademark Infringement Suit Against 'WOW BURGER'

The Delhi High Court has refused to grant interim injunction in favour of “WOW MOMO”, an Indian quick-service restaurant chain, in its trademark infringement suit filed against a Hong Kong-based company “WOW BURGER.”Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora said that Wow Momo was trying to appropriate or monopolise the use of the dictionary word 'WOW', which cannot be allowed, considering...

Madhya Pradesh High Court Monthly Digest: August 2025

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 170 to 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 180Nominal Index:Nain Singh Dhurve v State of MP 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 170Capri Global Housing Finance Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 171Tanishq Patel v NHAI 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 172H v W 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 173Saurabh Nath Sharma v State of Madhya Pradesh 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 174A v B 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 175Laxmikant v...

State Refusing To Take Responsibility For Smooth Functioning Of Bengali Film Industry, Trying To Wash Its Hands Off: Calcutta High Court

'It appears that the political parties are heavily upon the State, and the Principal Secretary is also not in a position to take a decision in the matter,' the court said.

Sharp Decline In Husband's Declared Income Indicates Attempt To Understate Financial Capacity In Maintenance Cases: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court recently upheld a family court order taking into account two years old Income Tax Returns of a husband, an advocate by profession, to determine his financial capacity to pay maintenance to his wife.Justice Dr. Swarana Kanta Sharma observed that a “sharp decline” in husband's declared income after marital fallout, without any convincing explanation, indicated a...

S.482 BNSS | Anticipatory Bail Applications Maintainable Before HC Even If Parties Did Not Approach Sessions Court First: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has recently clarified that anticipatory bail applications can be entertained by the High Courts and there is no need for parties to first approach the Sessions Court in light of the precedents in the case.Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas made the observation while considering an anticipatory bail plea preferred by an IT-firm owner in an alleged case of rape and sexual...

'Trivial Irritation' In Marriage Does Not Amount To Cruelty: Punjab & Haryana High Court

Dismissing a divorce plea, the Punjab & Haryana High Court held that ordinary marital disagreements, trivial irritations, or routine quarrels do not constitute "cruelty" within the meaning of Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.Justice Gurvinder Singh Gill and Justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa said, "Cruelty, within the meaning of Section 13 of the Act, must be of such a nature as to...

Non-Disbursal Of Sanctioned Loan Does Not Amount To Abetment To Suicide: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court bench at Aurangabad recently held that merely because the finance company did not disburse a sanctioned loan amount for want of procedural requirements and/or demanded processing fees or took one instalment in advance, and the loan applicant commits suicide, the said firm or its employees, then cannot be booked for abetment of his suicide or defamation.A division bench...